Every day we read about another school district having financial problems.

Speaking just for Rancho Cucamonga area, how many small school districts are spread throughout the city? Originally we had the communities of Alta Loma, Etiwanda and Rancho Cucamonga, which are all now recognized as Rancho Cucamonga.

Just as the cities have become one, maybe it is time to think about consolidating the school districts as well. I am sure there is an upper and middle layer of management that could be reduced to lower costs.

They could do a study of best practices to try and reduce spending even further. They could share ideas that work or don’t work in the classroom. They might be able to have better bargaining powers with vendors and suppliers if they were buying a larger amount of goods.

The Chaffey Unified School District oversees high schools throughout the western end of San Bernardino County.

Maybe it is time to manage the elementary schools in a similar fashion.

Just as businesses are having to change to compete and survive in this new economic world, should the schools be doing likewise?

VICKI DUNNING Rancho Cucamonga

Clean it up

What on earth has happened to civility in the hallowed halls of Congress?

People yelling racial epithets, people shouting insults, people acting fools in our place of government and I’m only talking about Congress. It’s appalling and it’s disgusting.

The Republicans and their minions (the Tea Party) are the worst offenders.

At the height of George Bush’s lunacy, no Democrat held up a sign of him with an Adolph Hitler mustache and a swastika on it declaring him to be a traitor.

It’s no surprise either that the absolute worst of them is from Texas, Louisiana, Alabama or South Carolina, never California, Oregon or Washington.

It fits a pattern of racism and bigotry. There is a faction of the public that resents a black man in the Oval Office.

C’mon elected officials, clean it up or get a job as a stevedore.

SHERRY BELL Ontario

Overboard spending

What is it our state Legislators don’t understand about the state being bankrupt? They have spent every dime that has come in; they have stolen from other accounts. Now they are taking needed redevelopment money from the cities. Yet they keep spending like there is no tomorrow.

The March 7 front page was very enlightening. I wonder how many other people realized they were doing “cap and trade” in California? I sure didn’t. They are spending billions of tax dollars which will cost the average family more money for gasoline, utilities will go up considerably and will also cost our citizens over a million more lost jobs.

Why are they not concentrating on the economy and jobs? They have spent at least the last 15 years tying business’ hands with high workman’s comp insurance and horrible restrictions on being able to run their businesses.

So many businesses have left the state for states that actually want business and the jobs they provide. When will this discrimination toward businesses end?

To add to this our legislators are preparing a single payer health care bill similar to the one that Congress has been working on. The cost of this will be over $200 billion. It will make it illegal for you to have your own insurance and it will cover illegals. I have yet to see any reference to this bill printed in the press.

If not for the Internet we sure would not have a clue as to what is really going on in Sacramento.

We need to throw the bums out. Get legislators that actually want to provide jobs for us and will make the environment job friendly. No more of going overboard on spending bills like SB 375 and AB 32 and the health care bill, SB 810.

I might add that we really needed a speaker of the Assembly with experience, not one that has been there less than a year. I can only imagine what is yet to come.

JERIE LEE Rancho Cucamonga

No change needed

Re: Changing the name of East Jackson Street in Rialto.

Change the name to just Jackson Street. Like L.A. did with South Central to just South.

Why let only high school students name it? How about Baca Jr. Street, that way when you see the street sign you know to turn around stay out of there? The emergency response people do not need any more headaches with street name changes heaped on it.

Maybe Baca Jr. will pay for the new signs out of his re-election funds, but of course you will then have to name it in his honor. That apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, does it?

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